Handle for wash-boilers



(No Model.)

PLANAGEN.

HAND R WASH BOILERS, &c.

No. 470,888. Patented Mar. 15, 1892.

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UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

JAMES I. FLANAGEN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HANDLE FOR WASH-BOILERS, 84.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 470,888, dated March 15, 1892.

Application filed December 5, 1891. Serial No. 414,078. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES I. FLANAGEN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Handles for WVash-Boilers, &c., which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a handle for washboilers and other purposes formed of gripsupporting brackets of novel construction, as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

It further consists of the combination of parts hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a handle embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal section on line 0000, Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 represent transverse sections thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the grip of a handle for a Wash-boiler or other vessel or article, and B designates the ears or brackets, which are adapted to be attached to said vessel or article. On the grip, near each end thereof, are shoulders O G,between each set of which one of the eyes D of the brackets B is located, the eyes embracing the portions of the grip between said shoulders, it being seen that the grip is firmly sustained by the brackets and, owing to the two sets of shoulders thereon, is prevented from lateral motions. In order to permit the eyes to be fitted between the shoulders, said eyes are primarily made larger than the diameter of the portions E of the grip which they embrace or separated to some extent, as will be seen in Fig. 4, so that the eyes may be fitted over said portions E, after which the eyes are bent and thus closed, as more particularly shown in Fig. 3, so that they fully embrace the portions E of the grip and are controlled within the shoulders O C. On the inner peripheries of the eyes D are teats or spurs E, which, when said eyes are closed, enter the contiguous portion of the grip, thus preventing rotation of said grip and providing a strong structure.

The grip is designed to be made of wood, while the brackets are formed of cast malleable metal, which permits the eyes to be bent upon the grip in the manner hereinbefore stated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A handle formed of a wooden grip with two sets of shoulders at its ends and brackets having separated eyes formed of malleable metal, substantially as described.

2. Agrip and supporting-brackets therefor, said brackets having eyes which embrace the grip, said eyes being formed with spurs which pierce the grip, substantially as described.

3. A handle consisting of a wooden grip with two sets of shoulders thereon and supporting-brackets having eyes which embrace the grip between the sets of shoulders thereon, each of said eyes being split and having afree end adapted to be bent around the handle between said shoulders, and operating substantially as described.

4. A handle-grip with shoulders and supporting-brackets with eyes which embrace said grip, each of said eyes being split and having a free end adapted to be bent around the handle between said shoulders and provided with spurs which pierce the contiguous portions of the grip, substantially as described.

JAMES I. FLANAGEN.

\Vituesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS. 

